okay but there is something disquieting about this urge to cast fan writers as altruists. they give us all this for free!! well, no.
theyβre sharing
itβs a key difference in perception. fic isnβt given. itβs shared. itβs part of a fandom communityβ in which readers are also an integral part.
itβs probably inevitable mission creep from the increasingly transactional nature of the internet and fandom-as-consumerism, which was always gonna happen after corps worked out how much bank there is to make from those weirdo fan people
but like. fandom is sharing. i think weβve lost that somewhere.
